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CALENDAR:
The Senate will return Monday, May 18. The House will not be in session this week, but may come back on May 27 and 28, though I have no idea why.
LAST WEEK ON THE HOUSE FLOOR:
The House came back into session on Friday, May 15, to vote on two items – H.Res. 965, a change to House rules that would allow for remote voting and committee activity by proxy, and H.R. 6800, the so-called “HEROES” Act, otherwise known as Speaker Pelosi’s $3 trillion pipe dream.
In the lead up to the vote, there was a great deal of consternation on the Democrat side of the aisle. The Progressive Caucus was unhappy with the ...

CALENDAR:
The Senate will return Monday, May 4. The House may return the week of May 11.
CONGRESS RETURNS:
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell declared several weeks ago that the Senate would return to work on Monday, May 4, and he even scheduled a roll call vote for 5:30 PM to make sure everyone knew he was serious.
On Monday of last week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that, after consulting with House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, she had decided that the House of Representatives, too, would return to work in Washington on Monday, May 4.
She then got on a conference call with her House Democrat colleagues and was ...

Rebecca Friedrichs, a longtime public-school teacher who—in a landmark Supreme Court case—went to bat for educators forced to pay union dues, is promoting school choice and arguing students and teachers should have the liberty to an education free of government coercion.
From Fox News Opinion:
“No child — not one single child —- should have to suffer in a dangerous or underperforming school and neither should their teachers.
No great teacher should ever be faced with the trauma of abandoning our profession or the students we love.
Leaders on all sides have stated for decades that ‘Education is the civil rights issue of our ...

Healthcare continues to be one of the most contentious and important debates we have in America. Everyone needs some kind of healthcare, from dentists to surgeons. In fact, Americans rank healthcare as the number one policy issue for voters; though, the populace remains split as to how we should go about fixing the industry. The Heritage Foundation thankfully has a solution: the free market.
Watch this Heritage Foundation video to learn more:
https://youtu.be/BtEdYly-97g
One of the most important points that Heritage touches on is the seven states that obtained waivers from Obamacare mandates to try and implement other policies and ...

The fifth Democratic debate happened last night in Atlanta, Georgia and the stage was set for controversy. Democrats’ phony impeachment hearing were in full swing, new polls showed Pete Buttigieg was beating Biden and Warren in key swing states, and Kamala Harris was dropping drastically in the polls. With all that in mind, the Democrats took the stage — and what followed was lackluster at best.
Fox News broke down the big winners and losers of the night:
WINNERS
BIGGEST WINNER: Amy Klobuchar
Overall, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar was the winner of the contest than ran over two hours. She had her best performance by ...

House Democrats held the first public impeachment hearing today, in which they called their star witnesses. The stage was set and Democrats thought that they had impeachment within their grasp, but they were wrong, yet again.
Republicans quickly and easily destroyed the credibility of the witnesses. Establishing the fact that the “star witnesses” had no direct knowledge of anything, let alone any crimes committed.
After easily discrediting the Democrats’ key witnesses, Rep. Devin Nunes put forward 3 questions that need to be answered before hearings continue.
According to CNS News,
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), the ranking member of the ...